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Joint replacements: Making patients wait burdens them and the system

Friday 27 October 2017, 05:02 PM

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Long waits for hip and knee replacements is costly on patients and on the health system, a Dunedin study confirms [Photo: Anthony Easton/Flickr ]

A University of Otago study has lifted the lid on the high costs of returning hundreds of patients to their GP after denying them hip or knee replacem

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